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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1930.

MINUTE THAT SEEMS A YEAR

By GLUYAS WILLIÄMS

MOTOR NOTES

MOTOR NOTES FROM GREAT BRITAIN.

[BY A LONDON CORRESPONDENT.]'

British Car Trame. The Automobile Association has published details of the British traffic capaus recently, carried out by it. This does not include stroct traffic in London or the great cities, but the information is none the leas useful

1

After the Show.

the tyres. Dunlops will be used, the fabric being of silk with a very thin coating of rubber.

Maintenance Mado Simpler, There are certain features about the upkeep and maintenance of a car which in many cases, in view of the tremendous strides made in the past few years, appear to be positive anachronisms. The aver age arrangements for emptying oil from the crankcase are a glaring example. Undoubtedly, the result is that owners shirk the filthy task of changing the oil in the sump and postpone it long after its proper time, with detrimental effect to the engine.

A record of another sort entirely has been the subject of recent letters in the technical press: "What is the greatest distance a car can go result of a world survey, for in-without the cylinders being decar

benised A car which ran for stance, Armstrong Siddeley now huve service stations operating in 20,000 miles was then quoted, but Australia and South Africa and Mr. Filson Young, the well-known. further developments are in hand. author, makes even more striking These stations carry full supplies claims for his 5-year-old 6-cylinder

A.C. The engine was first decar of spare parts.

Incidentally, the Armstrong Sid-bonised at 35,000 miles, then again The figures show that the nver.deley Co. are shipping consider at 60,000 and again at 70,000 miles age flow of car traffic has grown able numbers of their self-changing Its total is now about 73,000 miles. gear models to Australia and other. more than five-fold in six years and bas increased by over 12 per parts of the Empire.

As the largest exporters of motor Of even cent, since last year.

Cars in Britain, Rootes, Ltd. met a greator importance is the fact that while car traffe has increased by arge number of Overseas visitors to the recent Show. One even hail this amount, the actual number of tars has not yet increased three-ed from Manchuria where roads are fold in the same period, indicat non-existent. In fact, for anything ing that road usage increases more bat the shortest journey cars can rapidly than the number of vehi. only be used when the roads are covered with snow. Another visiton cles. This state of affairs strongly

was from Tanis and in this in- emphasises the urgent need for

stance orders were placed for Hum- ber and Hillman cars for service greater road development and im mediate legislation.

there,

Mrs. Bruce is likely to meet with It is not often that a new pro Aretic conditions over the early duction is announced within a few part of the route she has chosen for weeks of the closing of the Olym-the next Monte Carlo Rally, for pin Show, but such has been the ahe proposes to start from Lapland. ease recently. A. J. Stevens & Co., Her car on this occasion will be well known for many years as the Hillman Straight Eight which makers of the very successful A.J.S.she recently obtained from Rootes. model with motor-cycles and, more recently, of It is a Segrave commercial vehicles, are about to cream body, violet mouldings and market a new light car. This will chromium plated wheels. he of 9 h.p., the 4-cylinder side. valve engine being capable of

A most practical way of showing developing 3 to 30 b.h.p. will be a normal three-speed gear their appreciation of the Lord tox and four wheel brakes and wire! Mayor of Perth's 23 years of gratuitous and honourable civio ser- wheels are other items in the speci-vice" has been adopted by the Che car will be a soundly built citizens of the capital of Weet Australia A gift in the form of a vehicle of straightforward design; Wolseley 6-cylinder saloon was pro only one chassis will be built in sented at an immense birthday order to minimise costs, and it is probable that the three alternative gathering and Sir William Cam types of body will be fabric cover-pion, the Governor, expressed his committee was a Wolseley Messen The announcement of the Rolls ger," a typical British product.

It is interesting to learn from Royce 40/50 b.p. Phantom 11 creat Calcutta that a number of busincas ed such widespread interest that details of the latest 20 h.p. modal houses there, which have until late- of enclosed and waterproof design. were somewhat overshadowed. Thisly been most conservative in retain-

£cation.

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Doings Overseas.

the

In the 14/45 h.p. Talbot, how- Fever, there is no need to attack a

plus situated right under crankense, a process impossible to carry out and also remain clean. All that is required is to lift the bonnet and push a knob placed in A convenient position; the oil them drains from the crankense.

Marine Engines for Overseas. South American markets have loomed very large in the public eye recently; partly no doubt as a re- salt of the British Trade Commis sion headed by Lord D Abernon. There is a tremendous field for British engineering products and the large contracts received for railway materials, etc. indicate that foreign competition, however keen, can be defeated.

ed. Regular production is expect-Pleasure that the car selected by the Motor Co. for 10 sets of marine

ed about..the middle of 1930.

An important contract has just been placed with the Ailsa Craig motor engines, each of 40/60 hp. for service in the Customs launches of one of the South American States. These are 4-cylinder units

chassis, although of the 90 h.p. type ing their office "Gharries," are crofta is well reflected in the large

is known as the 20/25 h.p. model, as it embodies a larger engine, giving increased power with co sequent improved acceleration and hill climbing capabilities.

A great improvement in the new model and in the latest 20 h.p. is the system of centralised chassis lubrication. In this there are no flexible connections or piping nothing but brass tubing is used and it is secured rigidly to the frame so that it cannot be effected Actually there are by vibration. only three points requiring lubri cation attention and there is no need to emphasise the appeal that this feature makes to the owner driver..

The Overseas trade of Thorny- now changing over to motor cars. A well known Clive Strect firm, for number of export orders now in hand at the Hampton Works. instance, recently took delivery of These include two of the company's four Standard cars for this pureostal motor boats for the Greek pose and it is a practice that will certainly spread rapidly now that

break with the past has been

made.

The Absorbing Subject of Recorda.

The new Sunbeam which is being built for Kaye Don's attempt on the world's speed record is now nearing completion and details of its principal features are available. It has two 12-cylinder engines, the drive being conveyed to the rear axle by two propeller shafts be- tween which the driver sits. arrangement reduces head resis

tance.

This

Government, two armed, patrol

a 66-ft. Royal Barge for King Fuad launches for the Turkish Customis, of Egypt ships' lifeboats for the Holland-Amerika Co. and various small craft destined for service in Brazil, Sweden and Denmark.

The C.M.B.'s have 12-cylinder en- gines of 375 b.b.p. installed in pairs giving them a speed of 37 knots.

London's 'Buses.

According to Motor Transport, on ons. Saturday at the end of last September the London General Omnibus Company's 'buses carried The Export Market.

Wind resistance is of paramount 6,300,000 passengers, the highest There is no doubt whatever that what may be termed a massed at importance at the speed this car is number ever recorded on any one tack on

the Overseas markets is expected to attain; in fact, Mr. day. About 1,200 buses were work-

ing. being planned by British manufae Coatalen, the designer, estimates

During 1930 the L.G.O.C. "K" concerns that fully 95 per cent of the power turers and individual

smoother running, have been busily occupied in per-developed will be absorbed in over-buses will be replaced by the fecting their arrangements. As a coming it. Much, too, depends on

Economical to own and

to operate.. The Lowest Priced Studebaker Closed Car in History

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A.E.C. 8 h.p. 6-cylinder "Regent"

double-deckers. These are a new type running, of course, on preuma- ties; there is ample head room both on the upper and lower decks and yet the overall height, is no more than 19 ft. 10 in.almost a foot lower,, in fact, than on the "K" type..

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HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.

more prudish we are, the "He's a half-wit." "You over-estimate his intellimore wo rejoice in other people's

vices." geace

"Where shall we dine?"

"Your wife loses quite a lot of "Oh-take me to some place you money at bridge, doesn't the "

"Yes. I do."" can't afford."

"The maid said you'd be glad to "She's an optimistic young wo-

see me

m10.

The Board of Trade have received through the Foreign Office & bronze plaquette and diploma for Captain, P, O. Britten, master; a binocular glass for Mr. W. E. Tanton, first mate; and £2 each for C. J. Adams, J. Cook, G. W. Ellis, R. G. Hewitt, W. Johnson, and T. P. Quinn, quartermasters, of the P. & 0. steamship Khiva, of Liverpool These awards have been made by the German Government in recog nition of the assistance rendered by the Khiva to the German steamer Giessen, which was in distress in the channel between, the Button Rocks and Bonham Paas, about 110 miles from Shanghai, on March 13, 1920.

The Khiva was on a voyage from Shanghai to Hong Kong when shortly after midnight on March 12 distress signals were observed from the Giessen. The Khiva approach. ed to within half a mile of the wreck and took on board two. pas- sengers and five members of the crew of the Giessen from one of the fatter ship's boats. This boat then returned to the wreck and shortly afterwards a lifeboat was sent from this Khiva but upon reaching the wreck it was found that the remain- ing members of the crew had mean- while been transferred to the light- house.

Bulton Rock.

The Khiva wirelessed for a salvage tug and continued to stand by the wreck until the afternoon of

THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE. March 15, when a salvage tug ar

25, Queen's Road Central

Tel. Central 4759.

rived from Bhanghai. She then pro cended to Hong Kong, where the survivors on board were landed.

She (tennis enthusiast, about to "smash): "Duck !"

.. He (a rank sentimantalist); "Yes, darling ""!

CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

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1.--Sorrowful, 4.-Fossilized resin. 9. Toward the stern. 12-Metalliferous rock. 13.-Willingly. 14.-Gaming cube.. 15. Most recent. 17.-Repeated performance. 19.-To agitate. 21.-8ymbol for oleum. 22.-Merriment. 25.-Small boat.

97-Man's name.

31. Decay..

10.--Before.

55 156

18. To make metallic noise. 20.-Landed.

23-In mathematics, a curve. 23.--River in France. 24-Latin for and

28.-Large northern island. 28.--501.

20-Bluc.

30.--Gay. 32.--Pastry.

33-Antique,

36-To flout.

39. Conjunction.

40.-To plunge.

39-Te net toward, condescend 41.-Comparative ending.

ingly. 34:-A sloth.

35-To rest. 36-Large deer.

27.Abraham's home town. 38.-Went ahead. 41-To mistake. 42.-Brave man. 43.--Evil deed. 44--A playing card. 45.-Musical note, 47.-Petition

49.-Drawing for prize, 53.-Cancels.

57.To cool..

56. To mark distinctively, 60. To observe, 61.-Bench,

82-Powdered rock (plural), 63.--Consume..

Vertical,

1.-Offspring. 2-Part of to be. 3.--Moisture, 4.-Too. 5.-Arenages. 8-Part of to be. 47.-Girl's name.

8City in Nevada 9.-Fus

10.A tree. 11. Small mound.

44-Brown

46.-Priests garments,

48.-Concludes.

49. To tear.'

50. High card.

52.-Not many. 52.-Age.

54.-To employ. 55.---Meadow.

58. To place." 59.--Article

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